These are some activities that were presented to us at a Professional Development session a few years ago. We played them but we were not given any handouts to go along with them. I made notes of the activities and then gave them to the teachers in the group so they could use them in their classrooms.
As part of our curriculum, we are supposed to provide daily P.E. Since we don’t always have gym time available, these activities help to make it possible to do P.E. in the classroom. I hope you enjoy trying them out.

This ice breaker can be used with high-school students of all grade levels and in all types of classes. It’s a fun, full-class activity that allows you to get to know your students while they get to know each other.

Start the year off with a positive, engaging activity that will have all of your students on their feet, talking to each other, and searching for what commonalities they share. Team and class building!

This is a quick introduction for parents on four different strategies for solving addition and subtraction with re-grouping – base ten blocks, using a hundreds chart, adding on a number line, and expanded form.

I’m using this to send home to parents so they can be familiar with our problem-solving strategies and help their kids – we didn’t learn this way and it’s the #1 thing parents are confused about at conferences.

If you like this freebie – feel free to leave me some feedback! AND check out the full presentation – http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Conceptual-Math-the-Common-Core-Way-Addition-and-Subtraction-Strategies

This center includes school supply sentence cards that students will use to put a sentence in order. Students will use capitalization, punctuation, and content to organize the sentence into the correct order. Students are able to use two different extension worksheets. In the first, the students will record the sentences next to the appropriate school supply picture. In the second, students will create three original back-to-school sentences. One with a period, one with an exclamation point and one with a question mark.

This literacy center can be printed and laminated for durability.
This product is great for first grade, RTI, special education, homeschool, and for any child that needs extra practice in unscrambling sentences!
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This is a great tool to use with students who are learning about a new topic. This KWL chart can be used with a variety of topics. The children fill out what they already know about the topic in the K column. Then, the children write down what the want to know about the topic in the W column. Then, when they are done learning about the topic they write down what they have learned. This graphic organizer is a great tool for teachers to verify learning has taken place.

I am so excited to share my classroom management tools with you. These have changed the way I do reading groups. These work best with a remote clicker or you can take a wireless keyboard to your reading table. I put it on “slideshow” then go to my group. When the class is working on-task, I click to reveal a part of the picture. When they are off-task, I click the back button and they lose a piece of the picture. The kids are motivated to see the picture completed. There is a sound to notify the class that they have earned or lost a piece. These are SO easy to use and it really helps me focus on the kids at my table.

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This poster is intended to lay the groundwork for a very basic understanding of how Decimals work, without relying on a comparison to Fractions or Percentages at the very first hurdle.

We think that a student should understand the principles of decimals in relation to numbers which are a power of 10, before comparing and contrasting them with Fractions and Percentages. This way, an understanding of fraction conversion can become even stronger later down the line.

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Twelve great monthly calendar templates for elementary students. There is a template for each month of the year.

Add these calendars to your math time and teach your students math skills around days, weeks, and months. There are plenty of squares to fill in dates, holidays, and birthdays. Older students can fill in homework, holidays, and activities during the month. Print these calendars to help your students get more organized in their life and activities. Teach students to keep track of events with calendars.

Lesson Plan:
-At the beginning of each Month have your students fill in the calendar with numbers, special days in the month and holidays.

-Decorate the calendar according to the month. Turkeys for November, hearts for February, etc. Each day have students fill in the worksheet page.

Variation:
Print calendars then place them in a sheet protector for use. Write on, wipe off and hang anywhere.

I am so excited to post my first clipart and it is FREE!! These are some cute fuzzy balls that I have created. I have included 7 colored ones and 1 BW set a total of 8 Fuzzy Balls.
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This “Critter Craze” resource gives your kids a chance to get out of the classroom and be an entomologist. They may find all kinds of bugs, not just insects…but even spiders. Be sure to tell them that entomologists study insects as well as other bugs. While insects do have 6 legs, they may find a spider to write about.

The “jar” graphic allows them the opportunity to draw their many-legged critter. Follow up with a mini research for more information about their new-found specimen.

2 report frames (differentiated) are included.

I hope your kids have a great time with this Critter Craze activity, and perhaps it will be a great jumpstart for writing an insect report.

Have fun with this, but remind students to RELEASE THEIR BUGS back into the wild after studying them.

If you like this lesson activity, and your kids had fun finding an insect and writing about it, you may want to check out: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Animal-Report-Writing-to-Inform-Templates

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*INK SAVER ALERT! This resource has been formatted using only black, white, and gray ink. Feel free to copy the posters and anchor charts on bright colored paper for a look that “pops!”
*All posters and anchor charts have been produced using the “landscape” orientation (11 x 8.5).
*REMINDER: This poster set is for the CHAPTER essential questions and CHAPTER learning objectives only.
*Feel free to hang these posters on whiteboards, classroom doors, a math focus wall, or any other prominent place where they can be easily seen and utilized.
*SUGGESTION: Copy the posters back-to-back (2-sided) to make a lesson objectives or essential questions “book” for your kiddos. TIP: Add lined or blank paper between posters so that students may write or sketch pictures about what they’ve learned after the instruction of each chapter.

Happy teaching and learning 2nd grade math! 🙂

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This is what may be the first in a series of “Adventures” stories. The basic plot is that some special needs students get to enjoy a series of adventures with a little extra help from accompanying parents and teachers.

In this first story they board a big red bus and two vans then journey from Olathe, Kansas, up to Nipigon, Ontario, in Canada, enjoying a series of adventures in sightseeing and learning along the way.

Of course, in the process readers get to learn a lot in regard to general social studies, geography of the U.S. and Canada, cultural differences and appreciation etc.

Besides the story there are ten half page fun, educational word searches (aka wordfinds) and ten full page ones—short ones for younger students in particular, long ones for older students or higher level readers.

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This resource lists 20 study skills intended to help students succeed in school. It is especially helpful for students taking math since math courses are unlike other courses. To pass most other subjects, a student must read, understand, and then recall the subject matter. However, to pass math, an extra step is required: a student must use the information they have learned to solve math problems correctly.

This resource may be used as a journal topic, as a student guide, a goal setting starting point or copy it and make it into a poster for the classroom..

Are you tired of the same old regrouping practice sheets? Put a little fun into your students’ practice with these three practice sheet freebies. There is one regrouping subtraction sheet each for tens, hundreds and thousands. Each sheet has a grading key.;

Each sheet has 12 problems, which is enough to reinforce the concept, but not enough to overwhelm students. The opportunity to color after the computation is done, helps to ease the stress that often comes with regrouping.

This freebie includes five vocabulary posters that supplement the book How to Survive as a Firefly by Kristen Foote (illustrated by Erica Salcedo). The posters include photographs, definitions, and examples of vocabulary words from the book. The posters are also included in a smaller (quarter page) flashcard size.

The included vocabulary words are: metamorphosis, nocturnal, bioluminescence, insect, and predator.These vocabulary resources are useful for inclusion in a science center or as part of a unit on insects or life cycles.

About the Book

How to Survive as a Firefly is an entertaining and educational picture book that combines cartoon-like illustrations, humor, and lots of facts about fireflies. This book is full of tidbits of knowledge that range from simple facts to more complicated scientific details.

Book images created by Erica Salcedo are used with permission from The Innovation Press.

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This visual summary reveals some of the major concepts of Markus Zusak’s realistic and honest coming-of-age novel, ‘I Am The Messenger.’ It includes Theme Topics, Symbols, Main Characters, Conflicts, Literary Elements, and two of Zusak’s profound word pictures. For more details,follow this link to checkout my coordinating 78-page unit plan for this novel:I Am The Messenger Unit Plan

A set of 7 math posters for your classroom that show students step-by-step how to decode and solve word problems. The problem-solving graphic organizer that correlates with these posters is also included. Use these posters and examples of student solutions using the graphic organizer to create a problem-solving bulletin board in your classroom.

Hey teaching friends! I was feeling particularly crafty today and thought I would whip up a fun freebie for you!

I know it is hard when you know your students might not be reading as much in the summer as you would like. Or worry that your incoming students will also suffer from the “summer slump” before returning to school in the fall.

Well, how about a fun little incentive that you could use to enforce the idea that reading is actually F-U-N??

In this pack, your early writer will learn how to trace the words, trace the whole sentence and they have to copy the sentence. It’s fun and perfect for your early writer. These activities work well for fluency practice, homework, and for assessment use.

This is a reading document that includes project choices for students when they finish a novel unit, guided reading book, or literature circle activity. It can be easily adapted for any story that your students read. It is a great way to assess comprehension and is fun too!

Make sure to check out our Guided Reading Super Bundle that contains over 125 pages of resources that are ready to use with your students! It is one of our top sellers!Guided Reading Super Bundle

In this pack, your early writer will learn how to trace the words, trace the whole sentence and they have to copy the sentence. It’s fun and perfect for your early writer. These activities work well for fluency practice, homework, and for assessment use.